I have a dream... (of what? arrotscay? o_o)

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Welcome back to my blog.

In Rimu, we are going to be writing our speeches. When I first heard about it, I got really excited because I like to make speeches and it's fun to present as well as choosing a topic I am passionate about.

But hold your horses! 

(okay, I don't actually own any horses but if you do, hold them if you like -_-)

Before we start actually writing our speeches, we did an activity to put our minds into the 'ready-to-do-speeches' state. We did this by creating a visual representation that has the 6 tools from Mental Toughness for motivation!

The 6 tools are -

| Positive Thinking | Goal Setting | Attentional Control | Visualisation | Anxiety Control | Self Awareness |

We had to put some phrases or words that represent these 6, well, 5 because Visualisation is the drawing itself :) We used google drawings to create this. My dream for how my speech will go is that I am able to pick a good topic and to be able to engage with the audience well.

While I was creating the drawing I was constantly thinking about what others and what I will be doing my speech about. The hardest part of doing a speech would probably gathering information and actually writing a good speech. The easiest bit for me to do would probably be to present because I am a pretty confident public speaker.

If you would like to leave a comment for me maybe you could use these as your sentence starters...

Positive - I liked the way you...

Thoughtful - You brought me back to when...

Helpful - I noticed that...

Have you done speeches before?

Do you like doing them (writing & presenting)?

What do you find hard about speeches?

Enjoy!

Oh yeah!
and before you go (please comment first!) arrotscay means 'carrots' in pig latin. Everybody learned the language today :D

How do I make comments more interesting?

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Welcome to my blog.

Today we are going to be talking about comments and how you can make your comments even more interesting than just text. We learnt this is our cybersmart lesson for the confident group. Here is the link to the Uru Manuka site that will take you to our lesson plan.

To make this more interesting, I am going to teach you how you can add URL's to your comments. This way, we can add voice, or video recordings of you saying your comment.

How amazing is that!?

It took a few tries to properly get it working in the comment, but in the end it worked out perfectly. It's a really cool way to represent your comment than the usual text and it helps people to understand your feelings in the comment as well as making it easier to understand.

Have you heard this before? (I didn't untill now...)

Would you want to give this a try?

What do you think the benefits of this would be?

Enjoy the presentation!

Let's fish those voting skills out...

Hello to everybody on the other side of the screen!

Do YOU like poems, mysteries, news reports!?

Well then you are in for a TREAT!

Today we have 28 words, 28 entries! 

And hopefully some votes from YOU!

Not too long ago we did a writing competition, it had three categories. News report, Poems and Mysteries. We had to use as many as the 28 words we wrote down we thought of the 'brain' so there might some very brainy entries in there (haha get it?).

We had to try to use as many of the 28 words while still fitting the category AND and making sure our work was NOT over 150 words. Easy for some but hard for some too.

This is where YOU come in!

Since this is a competition, we are going to need some kind of voting system. So, firstly, you must read the entries and vote for your favorite one in each category! 

Voting closes on the 21st of August at 3 pm so get those votes in!

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Storytime with Mia! You can't fall upwards right?

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be doing some storytime.

Basically, it's just me telling you some random thing I want to share with you.

Overall, all I did was think of something I like doing and shared it with you. It was interesting to think about the other person's perspective when I am telling them about it.

If you could do storytime sessions, what would you say? Why?

Who would you say it to?

Do you think it would be interesting?

Enjoy!

Imagine you are a spring...

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about resilience.

Everything will be explained in the slide about what resilience is and some examples.

I learnt that resilience is really important, and that you when you make mistakes or when you feel under pressure is that you should have resilience and make sure you bounce back! I enjoyed learning about it and sharing it with this blog.

Do you know what resilience is?

What do you think you could have more resilience in?

How well can you bounce back?

Enjoy!

What is Resilience? by Mia Yee

Let's start super, duper, extremely, small...

Hey Bloggers!

Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about a really cool man called James Clear.

More information of him will be in the slide.

I will be talking about one of the few tips about making habits and keeping them that James Clear has found out about and made it so we can understand it easier. The tip that I have chosen is to 'start incredibly small'

Do you have some habits? Are they useful?

Is it hard for you to start a habit?

What kind of habit would you like to develop?

Enjoy!

Quality comments are key!

Hello Bloggers!

Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be explaining about what we did with Miss Morgan for our Cybersmart activity. For the last two sessions we have been working on quality comments. Firstly, you had to choose whether you were in the beginner, stepping up, or confident group, I went to the confident group. Then, out of the people in your group, choose 2 to 4 people to partner with. I worked with Abby and Grace, here are Abby and Grace's blogs. Here is the instructions on the Uru Mānuka site.

Overall, I thought that this was an engaging activity, although, I honestly though that it was mostly reviewing things that I already knew or have done. I did learn a few things here and there but they were most likely things that I have forgotten.

What do you know about writing quality blog comments?

Do you write comments on people's blogs?

What do you enjoy about writing comments?

Here is one of the comments we improved together.

Enjoy!